Just the Plague
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A freezing night in 1939, two years after the height of Stalin's Terror. A train pulls towards Moscow. Among the passengers, Rudolf Maier, a leading s cientist summoned, reluctantly, to give a rep...
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A freezing night in 1939, two years after the height of Stalin's Terror. A train pulls towards Moscow. Among the passengers, Rudolf Maier, a leading s cientist summoned, reluctantly, to give a report on his research into bubon ic plague. Within hours, it becomes apparent that Maier has been accidental ly infected, and everyone he has encountered on the journey must be traced and quarantined. The wheels of the state machinery begin to turn with terri fying efficiency as the NKVD, Stalin's secret police, rounds up dozens of p eople. Black vans scatter across the city. Against a background of politica l surveillance and arrests, is this a paradigm of routine oppression, or a necessary operation to contain a potential outbreak of the plague Based on real events, this taut, gripping fiction from one of Russia's most celebrated and important living writers poses profound questions about the balance between individual liberty and repressive state power during a pandemic.
Product Info
ISBN: 1783788054
ISBN-13: 9781783788057
Publisher: Granta
Year: 2021
Type: New
Binding: Softcover
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